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Elaborate plans for reunion festivities have been greatly cut down because of the war. Only the simplest sort of dinners and meetings are to be held, even those classes which are celebrating their important reunions. 1892, which will be back for its 25th, has decided that "owing to the fact that the country is seriously preparing for war, it has seemed to the Class Committee inappropriate to hold an elaborate or expensive celebration." The Secretary of 1897 writes that "the conclusion reached by the Class Committee that the 20th Reunion be reduced to the minimum of expense and effort...
Would not some students be willing to help in supplying reading matter to the wounded in French hospitals? French texts of novels or plays would be very welcome, though nothing could be used which is not in French. Anyone who has old books of this sort which he is willing to give may leave them at my house, 48 Buckingham street, or at 16 Russell Hall, and I will see that they reach a hospital in France. MAXIME BOCHER...
Those of the peace party who have any foresight and any sort a synthetic mind, and there must be a great many such people among so large a party, will see that German conquest will put the acceptance of peace-party ideals back hundreds of years. If members of the peace party believe in clinging to an ideal, even to the extent of bringing down the scorn of the rest of the world, let them now take up and continue to take up arms in defense of that ideal, until the ruling force in Germany, the one great and powerful...
...more than fifty years ago that Philip Nolan shouted: "Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!" Today, as in the days of the Civil War, this sort of blasphemy is scarce, yet a new feeling has come into vogue, quite as dangerous as that of the "man without a country," and far more widespread...
...brief campaigns of the Spanish War, the colors have been used largely as part of the bright dress of holiday rejoicings, of national anniversaries and expositions. They have not, in the thoughts of the present generation, been closely associated with the blood and grime of battlefields, with the sort of self-sacrifice of which a man offers the best that he has--his life...